Early symptom map of hand foot mouth disease in children

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Hand foot and mouth disease is a kind of infectious disease in children, especially in children under 5 years old. At present, it is a high incidence period of hand foot and mouth disease. How to judge whether children have hand foot and mouth disease? What are the early symptoms of hand foot and mouth disease? How can we prevent it? These questions will be answered one by one in this article.

Early symptom map of hand foot mouth disease in children

First: hand foot mouth disease is a common infectious disease, mainly in infants, a variety of enteroviruses can cause, EV71 virus is one of them. It can occur in all seasons of the year, and the peak is from May to July.

Second: HFMD mainly invades the four parts of hand, foot, mouth and buttock. The general symptoms of HFMD are mild. When most patients come on, they often have fever first, with macular papules and herpes in the palm and sole of the hand (red around the rash), blisters or ulcers in the oral mucosa, and obvious pain.

Third: some patients may have cough, runny nose, loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting and headache. A small number of patients with severe condition, can be complicated with encephalitis, meningitis, myocarditis, pneumonia, etc., a few severe children progress quickly, can lead to death.

matters needing attention

HFMD patients, invisible infected persons and asymptomatic infected persons can infect the disease. During the epidemic period, patients are the main source of infection, usually within a week after the onset of the strongest transmission.